Anti-Nephrin Antibodies in Minimal Change Disease
Approach to the Patient with Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Dysfunction- Part 1
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Conferences, Courses, & Grants
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Interventional Nephrology Series
Focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Nephrology (POCUN) Series
Kidney Biopsy of the Month Series
Midwest Transplant Symposium
Washington University at St Louis will be holding the inaugural Midwest Transplant Symposium on October 16th and 17th 2015. This course is designed to be an in-depth review and update in kidney and pancreas transplant. 8.5 AMA PRA…
OncoNephrology Conference 2015
One day symposium on OncoNephrology: Cancer, Chemotherapy and the Kidney Where: Hofstra NSLIJ School of Medicine When Sept 26th, 2015 from 7:30AM to 4PM The conference will highlight and review the latest happenings in OncoNephrology This CME is…
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Delayed graft function (DGF) after kidney transplant is associated with long-term allograft dysfunction. Niemann et al. (NEJM 2015;373:405) reported that therapeutic hypothermia reduced DGF (defined here as the requirement of dialysis in the recipient within 7 days after…
Nephrotoxicity of Dietary Supplements and Alternative Medicine
A few weeks ago, one of our pharmacists gave a comprehensive presentation about the potential nephrotoxicity of a variety of commonly used herbal, alternative and dietary supplements. He has a particular interest in this as he deals largely…
Recurrence of Kappa monoclonal gammopathy after kidney transplantation
Monoclonal gammopathies generally arise from the development of an abnormal clone of B-cell lineage. The monoclonal protein can be intact immunoglogulin (often associated with free light chain), free light chain (FLC) in isolation, or more rarely immunoglobulin heavy…
Point of Care Evidence-Based Nephrology Diagnosis
The use of evidence-based diagnosis is what we are taught that we should all do but in practice, this is quite difficult. EBM diagnoses rely on likelihood ratios but it is impossible to remember the diagnostic accuracy of…
Renal Effects of Anti-Cancer Medications
With the proliferation of new therapies for cancer including novel targeted therapies, it is difficult to keep up with the potential renal problems related to these medications. Thankfully, Nature Reviews Nephrology have published a comprehensive review of the…
EVOLVEing past Cinacalcet
One of the regular criticisms of nephrology is the lack of good quality randomized controlled trials. This is particularly the case in the world of renal bone disease where we target surrogate endpoints without necessarily knowing for certain…
Osteoporosis treatment in patients with renal failure: the gray zone…
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients develop significant changes in bone mineral density (BMD) and bone structure, which together with an increased risk for falls, put them at high risk for fracture. This can be due, in part, to…
Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC)— Preparing your kidneys for surgery.
Prevention of perioperative AKI, mostly from ATN by ischemic insult, has been a major challenge in nephrology. Recent study (Zarbock et al. JAMA) showed a simple, non-invasive method—remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC), could be a promising strategy. This multicenter,…